59-571: AA Book may refer to: Projects Review , or the AA Book, of the Architectural Association School of Architecture The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous Books published by The Automobile Association See also [ edit ] AA (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
118-541: A 2005 competition to construct a new headquarters for the America's Cup on the coast in Valencia, Spain. It was completed in just eleven months. The distinctive features of the 10,000 square metre building are three horizontal levels which overhang the terrace below by as much as fifteen metres, providing shade and an unobstructed view of the sea. The predominant colour inside and out is white, with panels of white metal on
177-473: A blender and consume it as a protein-rich shake." Rowan Moore , The Guardian 's architecture critic, described his work as "serious, solid, not flamboyant or radical, but comfortable with the history and culture of its setting". He observed that "Chipperfield stresses less glamorous questions, such as, "how is a building going to look five or ten years later?" and "deals in dignity, in gravitas, in memory and in art." He quotes Chipperfield on his work on
236-403: A city we have a responsibility in a way to join in and to understand why buildings are as they are in that city. I find it very weak for an architect to disregard the history and culture of a city and say 'I have an international style.' There's absolutely no justification for that. It's the equivalent of having no variation in a cuisine, you may as well just place all the different types of food in
295-666: A competition to redesign the modern and contemporary art wing of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. He also began his first ground-up building in New York City, the Bryant, a thirty-three storey hotel and condominium project next to Bryant Park in Manhattan. In 2017, he and his associates were engaged in a multitude of major projects around the world; including new flagship stores for Bally and Valentino,
354-588: A genius." In a 2014 interview with Andy Butler in Designboom , Chipperfield declared: "The one thing you can't do in architecture, at least in my opinion, is to limit your way of thinking to a style, or a material, you have to be responsive to the circumstances of a project." He declared that "architecture could not be globalized" because it varied depending upon the culture of a city. "However contemporary we feel that we are, we still want to find different characteristics in different places. When we are building in
413-843: A global architectural practice with offices in London, Berlin, Milan, and Shanghai. In 2023, he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize , considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture. His major works include the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames , Oxfordshire (1989–1998); the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach , Germany; the Des Moines Public Library, Iowa (2002–2006);
472-526: A higher proportion of students from overseas compared to other architecture schools in the UK. The AA Bookshop has a collection of architectural literature and is used as a platform for AA's own publications. AA Publications has a long tradition of publishing architects, artists and theorists early in their careers, as well as occasionally publishing figures who have already gained renown in other fields of expertise, such as Salman Rushdie . AA Publications produces
531-823: A house for the fashion photographer Nick Knight in London in 1990. His first completed projects in London were the gallery of botany and the entrance hall for the Natural History Museum (1993), and restaurant Wagamama , both in London. His first major project in Britain was the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames (1989) (see below). He also began to build in Germany, designing an office building in Düsseldorf (1994–1997). Other projects in
590-521: A property on Morwell Street behind Bedford Square, and a 350-acre (1.4 km ) site at Hooke Park in Dorset. Historically, students of the AA have been addressed by John Ruskin and George Gilbert Scott in the 19th century, and, more recently, Richard Rogers , Zaha Hadid , Rem Koolhaas , Denise Scott Brown , and David Chipperfield , an alumnus of the school. Women were first admitted as students to
649-470: A rich or fraught history." Chipperfield described the style of his recent The Bryant residential tower in New York City (2013–2018) as "classical elegance in terms of its symmetries and simple grids and order." Describing the Bryant Park, Tim McKeough of The New York Times wrote "In contrast with other big-name architects who wow with audacious forms and breathtaking structural feats, Mr. Chipperfield
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#1732776208396708-529: A unique democratic structure where staff and students elect a director and majority of members of the governing board. In November 2017, the AA was reported to be planning to make 16 staff redundant, including the whole of its publications and exhibitions departments. Shortly before, the AA had announced it was seeking a new director, to be appointed by March 2018, following the departure of Brett Steele announced in December 2016. The first female director of
767-560: Is best-known for buildings with a pared-down aesthetic purity." He noted that Chipperfield's signature on the building was the facade, composed of precast terrazzo panels with a mosaic of marble and sandstone chips, polished to a matte finish, to give the building a distinctive reflective colour. Chipperfield has taught architecture in Europe and the United States, and has lectured extensively, including as Professor of Architecture at
826-696: Is clad with self-compacting pigmented concrete made on-site, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. The architects selected the material to emphasise the gallery's sculptural appearance. Rowan Moore of The Guardian , in a 2011 review of Chipperfield's body of work, criticised the Hepworth Gallery's design, which he felt resembled "a bunker". The City of Justice is a group of nine buildings with 241,500 metres of space, which consolidate courtrooms and offices which previously were scattered among seventeen different buildings. The courtrooms are on
885-537: Is currently a trustee of the Sir John Soane's Museum in London. The practice's projects have received more than 100 architecture and design awards, including the 2007 RIBA Stirling Prize (for the Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach ), the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture ( Mies van der Rohe Award ), and the 2011 Deutscher Architekturpreis. Chipperfield has been recognised for his work with honours and awards including membership of
944-430: Is devoted to the works of painter J. M. W. Turner , his contemporaries, and those he influenced. It is close to the historic boarding house where the artist often stayed. The museum is composed of six identical glass galleries, referred to as "Cristalins", which are interconnected. The sunlight from the south is softened by a system of shutters over the ceiling, and the buildings are raised on pylons to avoid flooding from
1003-420: Is sometimes seen as a reaction against the more flamboyant projects of Frank Gehry , Zaha Hadid or Santiago Calatrava . In 2005, he told Christopher Hall of The New York Times , "I'm very interested in doing buildings that people are fond of, but with each project I also try to push the boundaries, to make something familiar but different. I'm not so interested in convincing the architectural community that I'm
1062-454: The AA , is the oldest private school of architecture in the UK. The AA hosts programmes of exhibitions, lectures, symposia and publications. The Architectural Association was founded in 1847 as an alternative to the practice of training (young men) by apprenticeship to established architects . Apprenticeship offered no guarantee for educational quality or professional standards, and there
1121-658: The Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach (2002–2006), and the Galerie Am Kupfergraben 10 in Berlin (2003–2007). In the same period, he designed and built, at rapid speed, a new headquarters for the America's Cup in Valencia, Spain (2005–2006), and an enormous judicial complex in Barcelona , Spain, which consolidated the offices previously contained in seventeen different buildings into nine new immense concrete blocks. He also constructed his first project in
1180-846: The Neues Museum , Berlin (1997–2009); The Hepworth Wakefield gallery in Wakefield , West Yorkshire (2003–2011), the Saint Louis Art Museum , Missouri (2005–2013); and the Museo Jumex in Mexico City (2009–2013). Chipperfield was born in London in 1953, and graduated in 1976 from Kingston School of Art in London. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, receiving his diploma in architecture in 1977. He worked in
1239-881: The Royal Academy of Arts , the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , a knighthood for services to architecture, and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association in 2013. In 1999, Chipperfield was awarded the Tessenow Gold Medal , what was followed by a comprehensive exhibition of his work together with the work of the Tessenow Stipendiat and Spanish architect Andrés Jaque , held in
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#17327762083961298-951: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart from 1995 to 2001. In addition, Chipperfield held the Mies van der Rohe Chair at the Escola Técnica in Barcelona, Spain, and the Norman R. Foster Professorship of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture . He is a visiting professor at the University of the Arts London (formerly London Institute). He has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation and
1357-488: The 1970s. Visitors enter through a pavilion on the top floor and descend to the reading rooms below. While the lighting on the interior is entirely artificial, to protect the manuscripts, each level has a terrace overlooking the countryside. The facades of concrete, glass and wood are designed to give the impression of both solidity and modernity. The building was awarded the Stirling Prize in 2007. Chipperfield won
1416-782: The 1990s included the Circus Restaurant in London (1997) and the Joseph Menswear Shop (1997). The latter shop featured a curtain of glass six meters high around the two lower floors, and an austere modernist interior with dark grey sandstone floors and white walls. In 1997, he began one of his most important projects, the reconstruction and restoration of the Neues Museum in Berlin, which had been largely destroyed during World War II. After 2000, he won commissions for several other major museum projects in Germany, designed several major museum projects in Germany, including
1475-606: The AA School during World War I in 1917, almost 20 years after the RIBA had admitted its first female member, Ethel Charles , who, with her sister Bessie , had been refused entry to the AA school in 1893. Ruth Lowy , Winifred Ryle , Irene Graves and Gillian Harrison ( nee Cooke) were some of the first women to enter the AA, hitherto a solely male school. In the post World War II period several women architects, writers and journalists attended courses ("classes and sets") at
1534-463: The AA of using "the pandemic for anti-democratic purposes". Architectural magazine Dezeen reported tutor and alumni views that the failure to investigate allegations of bullying and sexism had damaged both the AA school and the architecture profession, leaving "a cloud over the school". The AA began seeking a successor to Franch in December 2021, shortlisting candidates in March 2022. In May 2022,
1593-683: The AA was Eva Franch i Gilabert , appointed in 2018 (succeeding interim director Samantha Hardingham). Following votes of no confidence in her leadership, Franch was fired in July 2020 for "failure to develop and implement a strategy and maintain the confidence of the AA School Community which were specific failures of performance against clear objectives outlined in the original contract of employment." Her dismissal came despite support from academics who wrote an open letter talking of "systemic biases" against women and of sexism , and accusing
1652-399: The AA, including Su Brumwell (Susan Miller / Rogers), Eldred Evans, Margot Griffin, Zaha Hadid, Patti Hopkins, Samantha Hardingham, Sally Mackereth, Mya Anastasia Manakides, Janet Street-Porter, Carolyn Trevor, Susan Wheeler and Georgie Walton. The position of women at the AA was highlighted and investigated during a year-long programme of celebration in 2017, AAXX , marking the centenary of
1711-1050: The Architectural Association took place in May 1847 at Lyons Inn Hall , London . Kerr became the first president, 1847–48. From 1859 the AA shared premises at 9 Conduit Street with the Royal Institute of British Architects , later (1891) renting rooms in Great Marlborough Street . The AA School was formally established in 1890 and in 1901, it changed its premises to the former Royal Architectural Museum in Tufton Street, Westminster. In 1917, it moved to its current location in Bedford Square , central London. It has since acquired additional London premises in John Street,
1770-661: The Hellerau Festspielhaus. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2004 for services to architecture, and was made Honorary Member of the Florence Accademia delle arti del Disegno in 2003. In 2009, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , the highest tribute the Federal Republic of Germany can pay to individuals for services to
1829-552: The Museum almost entirely to exhibit space. The galleries on the upper levels receive natural light from the skylights on the roof facing toward the west. The building is supported on fourteen columns, and is built of concrete covered with plaques of travertine limestone from Xalapa , in the state of Veracruz . The floor-to-ceiling windows on the lower floors have frames of stainless steel. Chipperfield's buildings cannot be described as following one particular style, although his work
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1888-479: The Neues Museum, a project that lasted twelve years. "How you do things is profoundly important. The quality of the Neues Museum construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell the quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it." He also noted that Chipperfield "is much sought after for projects that help define cities' modern view of themselves, often in relation to
1947-701: The United States, an extension of the Museum of ethnology and natural history in Anchorage , Alaska (2003–2009). Until 2011, most of his major projects were on the continent of Europe, but in 2011 he opened two notable museum projects in Britain, the Turner Contemporary (2006–11) in Margate , and The Hepworth Wakefield in Wakefield. In 2013, he opened the Jumex Museum in Mexico City, and
2006-540: The building as much as possible while allowing the outside in." The Museum of Modern Literature is located in the town of Marbach , Germany, the birthplace of the poet Schiller . It benefits from a panoramic view of the Neckar River . It is located next to the beaux-arts building of the national Schiller Museum, built in 1903, and a more modern building of the German Literary Archives, from
2065-459: The ceilings, floors of white resin, and exterior trim of white-painted stainless steel. Exterior accents are provided by planks of wood. In 1997, Chipperfield, along with Julian Harrap, won a competition for the reconstruction of the Neues Museum in Berlin, which had been severely damaged during World War II. His commission was to recreate the original volume of the museum, both by restoring original spaces and adding new spaces which would respect
2124-541: The classic building; its ground level is the same as that of the main floor of the Gilbert Building. The walls are dark concrete were poured and polished in place, and the roof of concrete caissons is designed to modify the light entering the galleries. To give the facade a distinctive look which also blended with the Gilbert building, Chipperfield speckled the dark grey polished concrete walls with fragments of
2183-659: The completion of the headquarters of Amorepacific in Seoul, Korea, and the Inagara Reien Project, a temple complex in Japan. Work for Chipperfield's first project in the Southern Hemisphere is scheduled for 2025, partnering with Molonglo Group to design and build Canberra 's Dairy Road development. The River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames is devoted particularly to the sports of rowing;
2242-501: The extension of the Saint Louis Art Museum in the United States. His most remote project was the Museum of Naga, on a site in the desert 170 kilometers northeast of Khartoum in Sudan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He designed a structure to preserve the remains of two ancient temples and an artesian well, dating to 300 B.C.-300 A.D. The building, built of the local stone, blends into reddish mountains around it. In 2015, Chipperfield won
2301-788: The first women's entry to the school. A book, AA Women in Architecture 1917–2017 , edited by Elizabeth Darling and Lynne Walker, was published. Courses are divided into two main areas – undergraduate programmes, leading to the AA Diploma (RIBA/ARB Part 2), and postgraduate programmes, which include specialised courses in Landscape Urbanism (LU), Housing and Urbanism, Sustainable Environmental Design, Histories and Theories, Emergent Technologies, and Design Research Lab (DRL). Other programmes include Projective Cities, Design + Make, and Interprofessional studio. Since its foundation,
2360-430: The ground floor, with offices above. Four of the buildings are connected together by a four-storey hallway. In addition to the judicial buildings, the complex, on the outskirts of Barcelona, includes a commercial centre and retail stores, and a block of low income residential housing. The facades of the buildings are all the same, made of concrete poured in place and lightly tinted in different shades. Chipperfield wrote that
2419-441: The historic structure of the building. Reinforced concrete was used for new galleries and the new central staircase, while recycled bricks were used in other spaces, particularly in the north wing and the south dome. In addition, some of the scars of the war on the building's walls were preserved, as an essential part of its history. As Chipperfield explained, the architects used these materials so that "The new would reflect that which
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2478-600: The interior are covered in planks of non-treated oak, matching the local rural architecture. The roofs and sunscreens are of stainless steel. The entrance has glass walls, and the galleries on the ground floor receive natural light through the roof. The Des Moines Public Library in Des Moines, Iowa , United States, covers an area of 110,000 square feet, and cost 32.3 million dollars to construct. The two-storey building has no front or back; instead it fans out into three wings. A glass tunnel allows passers-by to stroll through
2537-625: The journal, AA Files , and the AA Book, known as the Projects Review , which annually documents the work undertaken by members of the school from Foundation to Graduate programmes. AA publications are designed and edited by the AA Print Studio , originally established in 1971 as part of the Communications Unit directed by Dennis Crompton of Archigram . The school had its own independent radio station. The AA has
2596-414: The library. Its most distinct feature is an exterior of glass panels with cooper mesh sandwiched between them; the mesh blocks eighty per cent of the sunlight, while allowing library patrons to gaze out at the park around the library. Chipperfield told Christopher Hall of The New York Times : "The architecture is neutral and amorphous; almost no architecture at all, and the copper mesh is an attempt to veil
2655-461: The nation. Chipperfield was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to architecture in the UK and Germany. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2010, the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2011, and was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2021 New Year Honours for service to architecture. Form Matters, an exhibition looking back over Chipperfield's career,
2714-479: The neighbouring sea. The fritted façades are designed to resist the dampness, corrosion and winds coming from the sea. The Colección Jumex in Mexico City displays one of the largest private collections of contemporary art in Mexico, neighbouring a theatre and another museum in a modern neighbourhood of the city. Zoning restrictions limited the space available, so Chipperfield put the museum administration, shop, and library in existing adjoining buildings, and devoted
2773-551: The offices of several notable architects, including Douglas Stephen, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers , before founding his firm, David Chipperfield Architects, in 1985. As a young architect Chipperfield championed the historically attuned, place-specific work of continental architects such as Moneo , Snozzi and Siza through the 9H Gallery situated in the front room of his London office. He first established his reputation designing store interiors in London, Paris, Tokyo and New York. Among Chipperfield's early projects in England
2832-528: The purpose of the building was to "break the image of justice as rigid and monolithic", but architectural critic Rowan Moore of The Guardian said it appeared "uncomfortably prison-like." The Saint Louis Art Museum project in Saint Louis, Missouri , United States (2005–2013) involved building a major new wing attached to a landmark of American architecture, the gallery built by beaux-arts architect Cass Gilbert in 1904. The new building by Chipperfield, with 9,000 square metres of space, harmonizes smoothly with
2891-424: The reconstruction of the U.S. Embassy in London ; One Pancras Square, an office and commercial complex behind King's Cross Station in London, a project for the Shanghai Expo tower in China, the new Nobel Center headquarters for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, a headquarters store for the online firm SSENSE in Montreal , the extension building for Kunsthaus Zurich , the Haus der Kunst cultural center in Munich ,
2950-427: The same kind of sandstone used in the Gilbert building. Edwin Heathcote of the Financial Times called it "a gem of clarity and deceptive simplicity...It is a building designed to glow, inside and out, one that is more about the intangibility of light than about mass reinforced by shadow." The Turner Contemporary gallery is located beside a beach in Margate , on the north coast of Kent in south-east England. It
3009-488: The school announced Ingrid Schroder would be its new director from August 2022. 51°31′07″N 0°07′52″W / 51.51861°N 0.13111°W / 51.51861; -0.13111 David Chipperfield Sir David Alan Chipperfield , CH , CBE , RA , RDI , RIBA , HRSA , (born 18 December 1953) is a British architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985, which grew into
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#17327762083963068-415: The school has continued to draw its teaching staff from progressive international practices, and they are reappointed annually, allowing a continual renewal of the exploration of architectural graphics and polemical formalism. The school sits outside the state-funded university system and UCAS application system. As an independent school, the AA does not participate in university rankings. The AA enrolls
3127-577: The title AA Book . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AA_Book&oldid=867738258 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Architectural Association School of Architecture The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London , commonly referred to as
3186-416: The town is home to the Annual Royal Regatta Olympic boating events in 1908 and 1948. The building is a blend of modernist and traditional forms and materials. It was inspired by the form of traditional boat sheds, as well as the traditional barns of Oxfordshire . The building occupies a space of 2,300 square metres and is lifted above the ground on concrete pillars to avoid flooding. The exterior and parts of
3245-403: Was a belief that the system was "rife with vested interests and open to abuse, dishonesty and incompetence". Two articled pupils, Robert Kerr (1823–1904) and Charles Gray (1827/28–1881), proposed a systematic course of training provided by the students themselves. Following a merger with the already existing Association of Architectural Draughtsmen, the first formal meeting under the name of
3304-399: Was a shop for Issey Miyake on London's Sloane Street. His shops in Japan led to commissions to design for a private museum in Chiba prefecture (1987), design for a store for the automotive company Toyota in Kyoto (1989), and the headquarters of the Matsumoto Company in Okayama (1990). His firm opened an office in Tokyo in 1989. His first commission to design an actual building was for
3363-424: Was handed over to the museum in December 2018. The gallery opened to the public in 2019. The Hepworth Wakefield is a gallery devoted to the work of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth . It is composed of ten trapezoidal blocks; its upper-level galleries are lit by natural light from large windows in the pitched roofs. Its windows have views of the river, historic waterfront and the city skyline. The building's façade
3422-460: Was lost, without imitating it." The building received the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture in 2011. In 2007, Chipperfield began a new project with the museum, to construct a new gallery, the James Simon Gallery , inspired by the colonnade of the old museum. The new section will house more than ten thousand objects from the archeological collections, including the famed bust of Queen Nefertiti . Scheduled for completion in 2017, it
3481-484: Was mounted by London's Design Museum in 2009. His Tonale range of ceramics for Alessi received the Compasso d'Oro in 2011, and the Piana folding chair has recently been acquired for the permanent collection at MoMA . In 2012, Chipperfield became the first British architect to curate the Venice Biennale of Architecture . The biennale, entitled 'Common Ground', sought to foreground the collaborative and interconnected nature of architectural practice. Chipperfield
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